“Don't count the days, make the days count.”
Muhammad Ali
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100 Gym Quotes
A short introduction
Gym quotes can sound like shouting. The better ones sound like a coach who has seen you skip a session and still wants you back. They talk about pain that has a purpose, patience with a slow body, and pride that does not need an audience.
This list gathers a hundred lines from boxers, runners, basketball players, and teachers of effort. You will recognize some names. That is fine. Famous does not mean empty if the sentence still makes you lace your shoes.
Use a quote as a start signal, not as a personality. The work is still the set in front of you.
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Training is mostly unremarkable. That is why a sentence helps. It marks the door of the gym, or the start of a walk you did not feel like taking. If you want it on your lock screen, generate a poster. Pick one of four. Keep the name of the person who said it. Then do the next set.
100 quotes
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”
Muhammad Ali
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men.”
Muhammad Ali
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
Muhammad Ali
“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”
Muhammad Ali
“Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
Muhammad Ali
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.”
Muhammad Ali
“I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was.”
Muhammad Ali
“It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
Muhammad Ali
“Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.”
Muhammad Ali
“I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan
“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.”
Michael Jordan
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships.”
Michael Jordan
“I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.”
Michael Jordan
“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”
Michael Jordan
“Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
Michael Jordan
“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.”
Michael Jordan
“If you quit once it becomes a habit. Never quit.”
Michael Jordan
“The minute you get away from fundamentals — whether it's proper technique, work ethic or mental preparation — the bottom can fall out of your game.”
Michael Jordan
“My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.”
Michael Jordan
“Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.”
Vince Lombardi
“The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.”
Vince Lombardi
“It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.”
Vince Lombardi
“Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.”
Vince Lombardi
“Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.”
Vince Lombardi
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.”
Vince Lombardi
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.”
Vince Lombardi
“Fatigue makes cowards of us all.”
Vince Lombardi
“The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.”
Vince Lombardi
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.”
Vince Lombardi
“A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.”
Jack Dempsey
“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“What hurts today makes you stronger tomorrow.”
Jay Cutler
“Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.”
Ronnie Coleman
“The iron never lies to you.”
Henry Rollins
“We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”
Archilochus
“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.”
Socrates
“It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.”
Socrates
“Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.”
Jim Rohn
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.”
Lao Tzu
“Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.”
Dwayne Johnson
“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.”
Bruce Lee
“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
Bruce Lee
“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.”
Bruce Lee
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.”
Bruce Lee
“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
Bruce Lee
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
Bruce Lee
“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”
Bruce Lee
“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
Bruce Lee
“The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
Bruce Lee
“In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.”
Bruce Lee
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire.”
Bruce Lee
“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself.”
Bruce Lee
“Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.”
Bruce Lee
“I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.”
Bruce Lee
“If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
Bruce Lee
“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”
Bruce Lee
“Real living is living for others.”
Bruce Lee
“Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.”
Bruce Lee
“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”
Bruce Lee
“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
Bruce Lee
“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water.”
Bruce Lee
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.”
Muhammad Ali
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
Steve Jobs
“Stay hungry. Stay foolish.”
Steve Jobs
“Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”
Steve Jobs
“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
Nelson Mandela
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
Nelson Mandela
“Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't — you're right.”
Henry Ford
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Believe you can and you're halfway there.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
Winston Churchill
“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
Winston Churchill
“Never give in — never, never, never, never.”
Winston Churchill
“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing — that's why we recommend it daily.”
Zig Ziglar
“You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
Zig Ziglar
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
Walt Disney
“Keep moving forward.”
Walt Disney
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
William Shakespeare
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.”
William Shakespeare
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott
“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.”
Maya Angelou
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
Mother Teresa
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You must do the things you think you cannot do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
Jim Rohn
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Mark Twain
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
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